Giraffe Cupcakes ♥

We were invited to celebrate a special little boys 1st Birthday and we made him these cute little giraffe cupcakes.
The giraffe was made out of white fondant & chocolate fondant and the cupcakes were lemon with a lemon butter icing.
I thought I'd add a few pics of how to make them just in case someone needs to make them for their special little birthday boy or girl.

Lemon Cupcakes
225g butter
225g caster sugar
225g self-raising flour
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
zest of one lemon

Lemon Butter Icing
250g butter
1 cup icing sugar
zest of one lemon

Preheat oven to 175 ℃
Place all cupcake ingredients in a large bowl and beat with an electric whisk until smooth and pale, about 2-3 minutes. Spoon the batter into cases.
Bake for 20 minutes. Remove and cool on rack.

For butter icing, whisk ingredients until smooth and pale and pipe onto cool cupcakes.

For the fondant giraffes, roll out fondant and cut out shapes.
Glue shapes together with a little bit of water. Leave to dry and place onto cupcakes.
If anyone tries them I'd love to see them.

✗Cathie

Comments

  1. Melinda @ Here We Go Loopy Lou26 June 2009 at 23:36

    These are fantastic! What a lucky little boy.

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  2. Alpineberry Mary27 June 2009 at 01:13

    Your cupcakes are so adorable! Love the fondant giraffes.

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  3. Lou27 June 2009 at 02:36

    Thankyou so much for bringing them to the party. We absolutely loved them! We certainly appreciated all the time you put into them!

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  4. One Flew Over27 June 2009 at 02:40

    What beautiful looking cupcakes. I am quite partial to the ol' cupcake so will put these on the 'to make' list...although mine won't be so good looking!

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  5. Christy27 June 2009 at 05:43

    Your cupcakes are awesome cathie!!!

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  6. Tania27 June 2009 at 06:25

    If I'm going to keep popping by here, I'm really going to have to be a whole lot more proactive on the gym visitation!

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  7. Baker's Cakes27 June 2009 at 10:04

    So cute! I'm loving lemon right now too!!!

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  8. KH27 June 2009 at 17:49

    They are just so cute, lucky boy!

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  9. mum space28 June 2009 at 19:26

    Cathie! Stop it. They are too cute. On our to-make list. Thank you x

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  10. Bee28 June 2009 at 19:48

    They are super cute!

    And thanks for stopping by :)

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  11. Thea29 June 2009 at 05:27

    They are the cutest cupcakes I have ever seen! I love giraffes and I love lemon - perfect. Thank you for visiting my blog too. Find a printing space and I will be happy to teach a class.

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  12. Sara26 July 2009 at 13:30

    so cute!!! My little boy is just crazy about giraffes. I'll be making these for his next birthday. Thank you, thank you, thank you

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  13. Nicole27 July 2009 at 19:49

    Wow, very talented. What a lovely present for a one year old :)

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